MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference MWCon Fall 2024 Announcement
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The MWCon Fall 2024 will take place in Vienna, Austria from November 4-6, with final confirmation expected by the end of April. The event will focus on MediaWiki development and stakeholder collaboration, inviting volunteers for organization and sponsorship. The discussion around the event includes potential conflicts and partnerships between various MediaWiki-related platforms.
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference MWCon Fall 2024 Announcement
- 2. SMWCon + EMWCon = MWCon Only about SMW? Only for enterprises?
- 3. Is it SMW vs. Wikibase vs. Cargo vs. VisualData? Or Canasta vs. Meza vs. OpenCPS?
- 5. MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring Edition: • American continent (mostly North America, but who knows?) Fall Edition: • European continent (mostly EU, but who knows?) Summer/Winter Edition? • Asia? Africa? Oceania? Hybrid or not? • Up to the organizer. At least some kind of live- streaming/recording should be organized. #MWCon
- 6. MediaWiki Stakeholder‘s group • MWStake.org “MediaWiki user group consisting of MediaWiki developers, system administrators, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects.” • Backing up MWCons legally and financially
- 7. How to co-organize? • Reach out to MWStake to volunteer helping organizing • Especially needed: Local chair • Also needed: a lot of other chairs You can help! If you want to attend a next MWCon, you can do something about it! Geoffrey Fairchild, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- 8. #MWCon Fall 2024 • #MWCon Fall 2024 will be held in Vienna, Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Gasometers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_History_Wiki • Tentative date: November 4-6 will be finally confirmed by end of April • Help us out with organizing it! reach out to Bernhard Krabina • Support us with your sponsorship! Photo: Arne Müseler / arne-mueseler.com / CC-BY-SA-3.0
- 9. KM-A Knowledge Management Associates | Gersthofer Straße 162 | A-1180 Wien | [email protected] | www.km-a.net 9 ▪ Knowledge Management ▪ Wiki consulting, Semantic MediaWiki ▪ Open Government, Open Data Bernhard Krabina +43 676 5103593 [email protected] linkedin.com/in/krabina @krabina